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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Germany - Daimler Trucks sales surge as the group's, Portland-based North American division, hires workers
(Photo by RICHARD READ/THE OREGONIAN - Workers assemble a truck last week at the Daimler Trucks North America plant on Swan Island. The company plans to hire 350 workers at the factory, adding a second shift)* Germany - Daimler’s Fuso Says Full-Year Vehicle Sales May Rise
Ludwigsburg, Germany -Bloomberg, by Andreas Cremer, Tom Lavell, Robert Valpuesta -Oct. 28, 2011: -- Daimler AG, the world’s largest maker of heavy-duty vehicles, said full-year truck sales at the Fuso division of Japan may beat 2010 levels because of growth in Asia and Brazil... Fuso’s third-quarter sales gained 71 percent from the second quarter to 39,793 vehicles. Full-year deliveries may beat last year’s 141,000 units... The maker of the Canter light commercial vehicle accounted for 40 percent of Daimler’s 355,300 truck sales last year... Fuso’s nine-month global sales fell 4.5 percent from a year earlier to 96,247 units, the company said today in a statement. The brand has a goal of doubling deliveries outside Japan in coming years to more than 200,000 vehicles from the 2010 figure, according to Albert Kirchmann, president of the division...
* China a Failure at Exporting Cars? Not Exactly
(Photo from Beiqi Foton Motor: Foton’s Tunland L pickup truck)
Beijing,China -TWSJ (USA)/China Real Time Report, by Norihiko Shirouzu and Yajun Zhang -October 28, 2011: ... Makers of large dump trucks and small pickup trucks are making inroads around the world, especially in emerging markets of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Russia... Consulting firm KPMG International said in a research report published last month that “a considerable proportion of trucks” sold in today’s global heavy commercial vehicle market are now from manufacturers from China and India, such as Foton, Dongfeng Motor, FAW and Tata Motors... While those companies sell a large portion of their heavy-duty trucks in their respective home markets, four of the top-10 manufacturers for the global market for 6-ton-or-larger trucks are from China, according to KPMG. Dongfeng, for instance, became the biggest makers of 6-ton-or-above trucks for the first time last year when it sold 300,100 trucks, displacing Daimler Trucks, for years the biggest seller in the heavy-duty vehicle market, which fell to the second spot...* India - Ashok Leyland shifts into a higher gear
Chennai,India -Business Standard/Motoring, by T E Narasimhan -October 28, 2011: -- Ashok Leyland is a company in a hurry, forging innumerable joint ventures and rolling out new products in an effort to reinvent itself as ‘not just a bus and truck maker’. Has it woken up too late? ... ALL is embarking on a new branding exercise to convince the world that it is not the company of yesterday... Very recently, ALL has diversified into various areas starting from Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs), to construction equipment and has managed to rope in some of the world's best manufacturers as partners for the ventures... In November, ALL launched the U Truck platform, which will gradually replace company’s existing truck models. Analysts feel that its U- truck platform will be the game changer for Ashok Leyland and put some distance between itself and its competition...
* Europe - The Euro 6 according to MAN
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